Hmm, I was pretty sure hacking into someone's e-mail is a crime in most nations out there.

So we're discussing (not so much in this thread, but this was also posted in General News earlier) riders' reputation, basically everyone in that thread assumes they are guilty just because of their reputation being less than perfect, and yet the only source of this rumor is something that is known and 100% guaranteed criminal activity?

I see a lawsuit coming, and I will support that 100% in this case.

P.S. To kind of put the things in perspective, Kolobnev's salary was estimated to be at least 500.000 euros/year, and possible closer to 750.000 euros

I would have thought that a monument win would have been worth a lot more than 100K to Kolobnev since he had a good salary and many second places. Of course, he might have just taken a payout knowing he couldn't win anyways.

I would have thought that a monument win would have been worth a lot more than 100K to Kolobnev since he had a good salary and many second places. Of course, he might have just taken a payout knowing he couldn't win anyways.

From the article

"’Illustre based its report on an exchange of emails between the two racers
dating back to the day after the race"

Fetisoff wrote:Hmm, I was pretty sure hacking into someone's e-mail is a crime in most nations out there.

So we're discussing (not so much in this thread, but this was also posted in General News earlier) riders' reputation, basically everyone in that thread assumes they are guilty just because of their reputation being less than perfect, and yet the only source of this rumor is something that is known and 100% guaranteed criminal activity?

I see a lawsuit coming, and I will support that 100% in this case.

A lawsuit against who? Unless he can show that the staff of magazine hacked his account, all the magazine did was run a story based on information from a source.

The only odd thing is that 100K would seem to be cheap for a win as big as LBL and such a win would be a huge plus for Kolobnev's palmares. He has been close too many times to sell LBL without a reason better than a 100K. He might have had that reason. He might have thought that Vino was stronger and he might as well take the guaranteed 100 thou.

"Listen, my son. Trust no one! You can count on no one but yourself. Improve your skills, son. Harden your body. Become a number one man. Do not ever let anyone beat you!" -- Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken

This certainly won't do Vino's campaign to run for Parliament any good!

diggercuz wrote:second post ever after reading the forum for the last few years and one thing i must say, ACF94 is probably the most intelligent poster here, never biased to BMC or Cadel, and never gets worked up over anything.